Description
| Product ID: | 9780330371872 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Frames |
| Title: | The Book of Evidence |
| Authors: | Author: John Banville |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime and mystery fiction, Crime & mystery |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer, shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize. <p><b>Inspired by the crimes of Malcolm Macarthur in Ireland, 1982, <i>The Book of Evidence</i> by John Banville is a gripping portrait of a cold, deceptive and utterly unprecedented killer.<br><br>'Banville writes a dangerous and clear-running prose and has a grim gift of seeing people's souls' – Don DeLillo, author of <i>White Noise </i>and<i> Libra</i></b><br><br>Freddie Montgomery has committed two crimes. He stole a small Dutch master – an unattributed painting of a middle-aged woman – from a wealthy family friend. And he murdered a chambermaid who caught him in the act, bludgeoning her to death with a hammer.<br><br>An eccentric narcissist, he has little to say about the woman he killed. He travels through life without any apparent remorse. He killed her, he says, because he was physically capable of it. It made sense to him.<br><br>However, as he narrates his testimony, there is one thing he cannot understand. One thing he would desperately like to know. Why did he want to steal the painting?<br><br><b>Shortlisted for the Booker Prize<br><br>'Remarkable' – Ruth Rendell, author of the Inspector Wexford novels<br><br><i>The Book of Evidence</i> is the first in John Banville's acclaimed Frames Trilogy. It is followed by <i>Ghosts </i>and <i>Athena</i>.</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-03-05 |
